Cardiac regeneration, cancer progression and cardiotoxicity of anticancer therapies
Vincitori della poster session alla conferenza ISCS 2012 “The Young Investigators Stem Cell Meeting” con il progetto organizzato da Israel Stem Cell Society (2 Dicembre 2012. Tel Aviv, Israele).
Progetto presentato: D’Uva G, Lauriola M, Rajchman D, Weisinger K, Yarden Y and Tzahor E. “Heart regeneration and tumorigenicity: oncogenic ERBB2 as a driving force”.
Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) are regulated by various bone marrow stromal cell types. Here we identified rare activated bone marrow monocytes and macrophages with high expression of α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) and the cyclooxygenase COX-2 that were adjacent to primitive HSPCs. These myeloid cells resisted radiation-induced cell death and further upregulated COX-2 expression under stress conditions. COX-2-derived prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) prevented HSPC exhaustion by limiting the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) via inhibition of the kinase Akt and higher stromal-cell expression of the chemokine CXCL12, which is essential for stem-cell quiescence. Our study identifies a previously unknown subset of α-SMA(+) activated monocytes and macrophages that maintain HSPCs and protect them from exhaustion during alarm situations.
Vai all’articolo originale (in inglese): Aya Ludin, Tomer Itkin, Shiri Gur-Cohen, Alexander Mildner, Elias Shezen, Karin Golan, Orit Kollet, Alexander Kalinkovich, Ziv Porat, Gabriele D’Uva, Amir Schajnovitz, Elena Voronov, David A Brenner, Ron N Apte, Steffen Jung, Tsvee Lapidot. Monocytes-macrophages that express α-smooth muscle actin preserve primitive hematopoietic cells in the bone marrow. Nature Immunology, 2012